Goomba38 wrote on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:37:11 -0400:

G> Ken wrote:
??>> Any tricks to slow down banana ripening? I bought a bunch
??>> of yellows (that's all they had, no green ones) last
??>> Saturday and by Tuesday the skins were covered with big
??>> brown splotches. I usually try to buy mostly green bananas
??>> and they last for five or six days.

G> It might be too late for this batch but you can put them in
G> the refrigerator as they get to the point where you like
G> them. It will darken the skin but the fruit remains fairly
G> unaffected, albeit cold to eat out of hand.

I does work and I have to do it since my preference in a
naturally ripened banana is one with just a hint of green in the
skin. When I was member of a household of 4, it was easy since
tastes ranged from mine to my son's who liked them good and
brown!

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not